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gone
/ ɡɒ /
verb
- the past participle of go 1
adjective
- ended; past
- lost; ruined (esp in the phrases gone goose or gosling )
- dead or near to death
- spent; consumed; used up
- informal.faint or weak
- informal.having been pregnant (for a specified time)
six months gone
- slang.usually foll by on in love (with)
- slang.in an exhilarated state, as through music or the use of drugs
- gone out informal.blank and without comprehension, as if stupefied in surprise
adverb
- past
it's gone midnight
Word History and Origins
Origin of gone1
Idioms and Phrases
- far gone,
- much advanced; deeply involved.
- nearly exhausted; almost worn out.
- dying:
The rescue party finally reached the scene of the crash, but most of the survivors were already far gone.
- gone on, Informal. infatuated with; in love with:
He is still gone on the woman who jilted him.
More idioms and phrases containing gone
- a goner
- all gone
- dead and buried (gone)
- far gone
- going, going, gone
- here today, gone tomorrow
- to hell and gone
Example Sentences
A report found that the facility had gone decades without conducting criminal background checks on its staff.
"'s happened now is that this is probably the first election that I've been in where there is no conversation about an Aboriginal policy. It's just gone silent."
John purchased the harp that Alice would learn to play before he died, and it arrived at the family home after he was gone.
The SFA rule change will bring it into line with other sports such as rugby, swimming and athletics, which restrict women's competition to players that have not gone through male puberty.
The nursery rhyme that goes “Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children are gone” cruelly repeated in my head.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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